The City of Calgary is launching the first phase of ChargeYYC, a new pilot program that provides funding to Calgarians living in condos, apartments, townhouses, rowhouses, and other multi-residential buildings, to install electric vehicle chargers [Read more]
This article was published by The Energy Mix on Sept. 12, 2024. By Gaye Taylor Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek, a strong advocate for her city as a global leader in clean technologies and decarbonization, has [Read more]
This article was published by Alberta Ecotrust on June 27, 2024. By Andrea Soler CALGARY, June 27, 2024 – Alberta Ecotrust Foundation is proud to announce its investment of $900,000 from its Climate Innovation Fund in [Read more]
Last week, the Government of Canada announced it will invest over $3 million in Alberta’s clean technology sector. The Trudeau government says the funds will help fuel the energy transition, strengthen the Canadian economy, create [Read more]
On Monday, the Global Petroleum Show announced it will rebrand the event and change its name to the Global Energy Show. The switch reflects the industry’s evolution. The Global Energy Show will still highlight technological [Read more]
Energy apologetics: argument for oil and gas development intended to convert audience, not a “rational discussion” about future of the industry Ed. note: Watch this interview with Dr. Sara Hastings-Simon (Industry caught red-handed with anti-climate [Read more]
Headliners at the Energy Relaunch conference Thursday in Calgary at the Metropolitan Conference Centre Energy Relaunch would benefit from more outward looking, forward thinking panelists – like the Alberta oil sands CEOs – instead of [Read more]
Husky Energy Chief Executive Rob Peabody told the TD investor conference in Calgary that the oil company has enough pipeline capacity locked in to ship its oil until 2021. Husky photo. On the sidelines of [Read more]
Jaden Holle; Leonard Bastien, Elder, Blackfoot confederacy; Minister of Economic Development and Trade Deron Bilous; Jessica Wilson; Lindsay Lockwood welcome participants to the Global Petroleum Show. Government of Alberta photo. New investment, partnership opportunities as [Read more]
Joule Bergerson and graduate student Matt Tierney completed a Low Carbon Economic Case Study developed in partnership with the City of Calgary By Andrea Kingwell, for the Office of the Vice-President (Research) The debate around [Read more]
Research by Babak Farjad’s team shows Elbow River basin will strain under climate change, urban growth Climate change and urban development along Calgary’s Elbow River may be a recipe for frequent flooding disasters in the [Read more]
Calgary unemployment rate down from a 22-year high of 9.4% in 2016 to 8.7% last year Economic growth is set to moderate in Calgary and Edmonton this year, with the cities expanding by 2.5 per [Read more]
Production process utilizes citrus based bio-solvent that naturally separates bitumen from oil sands with no tailing ponds US Oil Sands Inc., an innovator of oil extraction technologies using citrus, announced that it has commenced a sale solicitation [Read more]
Enmax expects electric vehicle adoption to be slower in Calgary than other Canadian cities Three years ago I interviewed John Rilett, Enmax director of enhanced energy services & renewables, about how the City of Calgary-owned utility [Read more]
Currently about 3 million light duty vehicles in Alberta, but less than 1,000 EVs Electric vehicles are set to take over the world, folks. Not in the immediate future, but soon enough that city governments [Read more]
Flexibility and freedom more highly prized than lower cost of ride sharing, according to readers A Reuters/Ipsos poll showing that 9 per cent of Americans who sold or traded in a car last year have [Read more]
If Tony Seba is correct, the Texas and Alberta economies just took a metaphorical bullet to the head Will the emerging electric vehicle “transportation as a service” business model kill the global oil industry in 10 [Read more]
Donald Trump’s shenanigans in the White House have made voters sensitive about politicians using their office to enrich themselves Brad Wall has been around politics long enough to know that perception is just as important [Read more]
Renewable energy – primarily wind – already cost-competitive without subsidies in Alberta, says BluEarth CEO Calgary entrepreneur Kent Brown has been named Clean Energy Canada’s “Innovator of the Year” for 2015. Not bad for a [Read more]
Cost of renewables will drop, fossil fuel costs likely to rise, power grid becomes smarter – Enmax I still refer to this column three years later. Long before Rachel Notley and the NDP assumed power in Alberta [Read more]
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